Confetti bomb



1. KYRIAAZOPO'ULOS.

CONFETTI BOMB.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 7, 1920.

Patented July 18,1922.

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Application filed February T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it .known that I, JAMES KYRIAzoroU- Los, a subject of the King of Greece, residing at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Confetti Bombs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a confetti bomb adapted for use at various functions such as dances, dinner parties, New Year celebrations and the like where it is desired to distribute confetti over persons without danger of injuring anyone. i

The invention provides a shell for coi1- taining the confetti, which shell is so formed as to be readily frangible on impact, the charge of confetti being contained within the shell so that the fracture thereof releases the confetti for distribution and dispersion.

A further feature of the invention resides in the compacting or compressing of the confetti charge within the shell so as to insure relatively wide dispersion of the confetti on fracture of the shell. I

Another object of the invention resides in the provision of a shell for containing the confetti which is formed of a material easily molded and which is of such a nature that the fragments of the shell are worked into the surface of a dancing floor without hindrance to the dancers.

Another feature of the invention resides in the method of forming the shell and in the material used therefor.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a view, in elevation, of the form used in fabricating the shell;

Fig. 2 is a view showing the form in elevation and the shell molded thereon;

Fig. 3 is a view showing the form in elevation with the shell molded thereon and illustrated in section and ready to be removed from the form;

Fig. 4c shows the shell in longitudinal section separated into halves and containing confetti;

Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section showing the sections of the shell sealed together;

Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the completed confetti bomb.

In detail:

The form for molding the shell of the bomb is indicated at A and is preferably of Specification of Letters Patent. Patgg tgd July 18, 1%}22,

7, 1920. Serial No. 357,005.

the shape of an egg, though it may be of any other suitable form. The said form is hollow as indicated by the brokenaway portion in Fig. 1. The material used informing the shell of the confetti bomb must have the property of hardening quickly, being relatively brittle and easily working into the surface of a dancing floor. Preferably the material of which the shell is formed consists by volume of one third parafiin and two-thirds stearin thoroughly mixed. The mixture is heated to such a temperature as will properly liquefy it for the purpose inhand and the form is either dipped into the liquid composition or such composition is poured over it so that a film thereofadheres tothe form. The form being of some material which is dense enough so that the composition does not sink into any pores and therefore after a suitable thickness of composition has adhered to the form, such form is allowed to cool and the composition covering severed circumferentially of the small diameter of the .form as indicated at l in Fig. 3 thereby dividing the shell B.

into two halves 2 and 3 which are easily removed from the form A.

In applying the composition to the form 1, such form may be repeatedly dipped into the liquid composition so as to provide successive adhering layers on the form making it possible to provide a shell of any desired thickness.

The shell thus formed andfremo ed from the form A as indicated in Fig. i is filled with a charge of confetti indicated at C and the two halves or sections of the form are then brought together as shown in Fig. 5 and sealed by a suitable weld 4 of the same material of which the shell is made, thereby providing an integral structure.

In filling the shell with confetti the charge 7 thereof may be placed in the one section and the other section then applied. It is desirable that the charge be compacted or compressed for the purpose of providing a sufficient amount within a relatively small shell and also so that on fracture of the shell the confetti will be properly distributed.

In use, a party may carry several of these relatively small confetti bombs in the pocket without inconvenience and, when thrown, the confetti is distributed over the person struck without injury or annoyance to such person. If used on a dance floor the composition of the shell is such that it works into the surface of the floor in the same manner as does the wax used for surfacing; a dancing floor.

I claim:

1. A confetti bomb comprising a frangible shell containing a compacted charge of confetti adapted to be distributed by the frag mentation of said shell caused by exterior action.

2. A confetti bomb comprising shell. formed of frangible sections providing when assembled, a closed container for a charge of confetti said sections having a welded joint along their line of rupture maintaining; the same in assembled relation, the confetti being distributed by the fragmentation of the shell on impact.

3. A confetti bomb comprising a shell molded of a composition of paraffin and stearin and containing a confetti charge distributed on the fragmentation of said shell from exterior sources.

t. A confetti bomb comprising a shell molded of a composition of one-third paraffin and two-thirds stearin by volume and containing a confetti charge distributed on the fragmentation of said shell from exterior sources.

5. The method of forming a confetti bomb consisting in molding a shell about a form, splittin such shell medially and removing it from the form in sections, filling the sections Witha confetti charge and welding the same together along the split line to provide a closed container.

welding the sections together with a double thickness circumscribing rib of the same material as that forming the shell whereby the v Welded shell is reinforced over the entire joint.

8. The method of forming a confetti bomb consisting in molding a shell about a form splitting such shell medially and removing it from the form in sections, compressing a confetti charge and inserting the same Within the sections and welding such sections together along their split erges to provide a closed container.

9. The method of forming a confetti bomb consisting in molding a shell about a form, splitt-ii'ig such shell medially and removing it from the form in sections, compacting a confetti charge of sufficient volume and enclosing the same in the sections and welding the two sections together along their split edges to provide a. closed container.

- In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

JAMES KYRIAZOPOULOS. [L.S.] 

